Handling of images

ernst67 wrote: Is it possible to crop images after upload, but before they are stored?

I fell in love with the way Eventbrite does this. In JEM there is often a discrepancy between the event image that you want to display in detail view and the one you want in list view. Mostly the last one needs to be in a fixed px x px format to keep the list view clean and sharp.

That is exactly how I would like to see this.
1. the thumbnails should have a fixed aspect ration. i.e. they all should be square in the list view and not the ratio of the original image, to keep the list view overall consistent (I'll post a question on this in a separate thread)
2. preferably the the image in the detail view should be the same size on all pages (here you could achieve this with css, with the image in a box, like I did on my site)
3. as I stated in the beginning of this threat the file size limit is drawback for the enduser

Resizing is best done on upload, or maybe even beter on save.

After looking a the GitHub project for the Zebra Image library, I found that the resizing of the large image shouldn't be that difficult. It is just a matter of defining an output directory and image size for the large image.

github.com/stefangabos/Zebra_Image/issues/10

So a scenario could be:

1. Let the user upload an image of his choice.
2. Store this image in a temp directory (i.e. 'originals' or 'src')
3. When creating a thumb, also resize the original to a large size, defined by the settings in JEM. (You could also define a medium size image size, which can be uses when viewing on a mobile device.)
4. Store the resized images in their subsequent folders.
5. At some point have the original deleted, to free up space on your server